A minor earthquake magnitude 3.7 (ml/mb) strikes 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Perry in Oklahoma on Tuesday. The temblor was reported at 22:42:49 / 10:42 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 4.81 km (3 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -97.4829 West, latitude 36.1899 North, depth = 4.81 km. Global time and date of event 09/09/15 / 2015-09-09 03:42:49 / September 9, 2015 @ 3:42 am UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us20003hgz. Ids that are associated to the event: us20003hgz.
Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was El Reno, Del City, Harrah (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 80 km (50 miles) from Oklahoma City (c. 580 000 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Midwest City (c. 54 400 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days eleven, in the past 30 days fourty-one and in the last 365 days six hundred and ninety-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.
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